Michigan Secretary of State Says At Least 3 Million Expected To Vote By Mail

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'About 2.4 million citizens of the expected 5 or 5.5 million we expect to vote this fall in Michigan have requested to vote by mail,' Michigan's Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said.

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson addresses the virtual Democratic National Convention on August 20. The convention, which was once expected to draw 50,000 people to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is now taking place virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic.Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson addresses the virtual Democratic National Convention on August 20.

Given the volume of absentee ballots exected, Benson cautioned that final results are unlikely to be ready on Election Night. Yes and we've worked with our legislature to give our clerks a little more time to process the ballots prior to Election Day, which basically means opening the envelopes, checking the signatures, flattening out the ballots, [and] preparing them to be tabulated. And so they've given our clerks an extra day to begin that process, which is helpful, but of course doesn't go nearly enough to address the entire issue. Many other states have as many as seven days for that pre-processing.

 

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Be prepared to jump through 20 hoops to vote absentee. And you don’t even know if the post office will deliver it. Do us a favor and take your ballot to the courthouse now and do early voting.

Mthrfckrs can go everywhere else and bitch about shut down but as a leftist plot to fck up the election they can't vote in person. Pure bullsht

Take your ballots to your counties ballot box. PLEASE! The earlier the Better! Rememeber the privacy Envelopes! Your ballot won't count without them!

Republicans are rushing to put a justice on the Supreme Court who will back their lawsuit to overturn the Affordable Care Act, kicking millions off their health care and raising their costs in the middle of the pandemic.

Yeah... Since your news desk is 'closed for the weekend' (because news apparently only happens during the week...🙄) & is therefore unwilling to cover REAL news about election interference, maybe you should stop Tweeting out stories like this until u cover the WHOLE story!!!

Millions of voters out of work.

Vote in person!!!

Groundbreaking! 💯👏

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